Samwe language

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Samwe
Wara
RegionBurkina Faso
EthnicitySamba
Native speakers
(4,500 cited 1993)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3wbf
Glottologwara1292
ELPWara

Samwé (Samoe), also known as Wara (Ouara, Ouala), is a Niger-Congo language of Burkina. Dialects are Negueni-Klani, Ouatourou-Niasogoni, and Soulani. Niasogoni speakers have difficulty with Negueni, but not vice versa.

References

  1. ^ Samwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)